[socialmediaking]

I drove the Karma last month and it was pretty awesome. I'm big on electric cars, but the downfall of 100% electric is a term called Range Anxiety. Which as the name implies, is being anxious about how far you can go. A car like the karma has a gas tank that allows it to go up to 250 miles more after the 50 miles of battery are up. That is the main difference I learned between the electric vs hybrid cars, and to me an important distinction...

[rdl]

I absolutely agree about Range Anxiety if you have only one car, but if you've got a nice gas-powered Audi now, and a diesel F-350 work truck, it's pretty reasonable to get a pure-electric car to leave at the office for daily trips, and maybe to use for commuting. There's no practical way to drive more than 300 miles in the Bay Area per day (unless you just drive it around in circles); I rarely do more than 200.

[darklajid]

Can you clarify if you meant replacing one car with the electric one or actually think of a 3 car setup (for, I assume, 1-2 persons)?

[rdl]

I'd think of it as a 2-3 car setup. The truck is shared at my company, and my gf doesn't have a car of her own yet, so having two personal cars would be reasonable.

But what I really mean is that no one is likely to be happy with JUST a battery electric vehicle; they will want access to a refuelable car for longer trips. And, personally, I don't want to put 1500 mile trips on an $80k new car; I'd rather keep my NPV $12k 2006 audi for that kind of thing, and keep the miles on that.

For a daily driver around the bay area, though, the model s looks perfect.